Yuan-Pern Lee ( Chinese: 李遠鵬; pinyin: Lǐ Yuǎnpéng; born 25 January 1952) is a Taiwanese chemist.

Lee was born on 25 January 1952 in Hsinchu, Taiwan, ^[1] the youngest of painter Lee Tze-fan's three sons. Lee studied chemistry at National Taiwan University and pursued a doctorate in the subject from the University of California, Berkeley. He began a research career in 1979 at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration before accepting a teaching position at National Tsing Hua University in 1981. ^{[2] [1]} Lee was named a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1999, ^{[1] [2]} and subsequently considered multiple times for membership in the Academia Sinica. ^{[3] [4]} Eventually, Yuan-Pern Lee was inducted into Academia Sinica in 2008, ^[2] and the Lees became the first family to have three members serve simultaneously as academicians of Academia Sinica. ^[4] Yuan-Pern Lee's induction followed that of his brothers Yuan-Chuan Lee and Yuan T. Lee. ^[3] Yuan-Pern Lee's association with the Academia Sinica began in 1988, when he began working as an adjunct research fellow within the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences. ^[5] Yuan-Pern Lee has taught at National Chiao Tung University since 2004 as chair of the Department of Applied Chemistry and director of the Institute of Molecular Science. ^{[2] [1]} Lee was part of a research team at National Chiao Tung University that discovered the Criegee intermediate CH2OO particle in 2013. ^{[6] [7]} Lee was a 2017 recipient of the Humboldt Research Award. ^{[8] [9]} In 2019, Lee, Yuan-Tsong Chen, and Wei Fu-chan won Taiwan's Presidential Science Prize [ zh]. ^[10]

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